308:. It is also a part of Markerstudy Group, and is a centre for postgraduate training, research and consultancy. Salomons was interested in electricity from an early age and when he inherited Broomhill in 1873, he set up large laboratories and workshops where he investigated electromotive force and electric conductors and carried out countless experiments. He took out patents for electric lamps, current meters and various improvements to electrical equipment. The workshops were said to contain some 60,000 tools, which could manufacture anything from a watch to a steam engine and also included a huge electromagnet.
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Forensic experts examined the timepieces they recovered and detectives questioned the lawyer who negotiated the sale; their investigation led police to an
Israeli woman living in Los Angeles, Nili Shamrat, whom they identified as the widow of Naaman Diller, the notorious Israeli criminal who carried
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Salomons installed at Broomhill was electric light. He had his own coal-fired generator and could produce enough electricity for 1,000 sixteen candle-power (about 60 watt) light bulbs. Electricity was installed on a small scale at first, in the workshops in 1874, where it
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He left some of his collection to his wife and she later took them to
Sotheby's to be auctioned, although on her first visit she was reportedly dismissed from the office because the Sotheby's staffer could not believe that anyone could possibly have owned such a collection. The timepieces were
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was burgled and 106 rare timepieces were stolen, including the entire
Salomons collection. The multimillion-dollar theft was Israel's largest-ever robbery—by this time, the "Marie Antoinette" alone was valued at nearly US$ 20 million. The case remained unsolved until 2006 when a Tel Aviv
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out the burglary and then fled to Europe, before settling in the United States. When
Israeli police and American officials arrived at Shamrat's home to question her, they found more timepieces and 66 of the stolen Mayer Institute timepieces were eventually recovered.
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unit, on 6 November 1908. His only son and heir, David
Reginald Herman P. Salomons, served as an officer in the unit and commanded 3rd Kent Fortress Field Company as a captain during World War I. He died on 28 October 1915 during the
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in Paris, but it was subsequently stolen. Fortunately, after three months of tinkering with the watch, the thief was apprehended and the watch recovered when he took it to a renowned
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Salomons also developed one of the first electric cooking devices, an electric butter churn and the first electric alarms, all made and installed by
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carrying his company to Suvla Bay was sunk in an accidental collision with HMS Sarnia. Salomons and 128 of his men died. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
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